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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 16r¤, 1912.

THE MAGISTRACY.

For returning from banishment, a Chi- nese was sentenced to six months' hard labour.

a larger On a charge of failing to obliterate stamps of receipts, a female rent collee- tor was fined 85. She said she did not know the law.

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Before Mr. Irving, at the Magistracy yesterday, a Chinese woman was charget with being in unlawful possession of two tacks of opium. The Magistrate inflicted a fine of $30, the alternative being a month's imprisonment,

[TELEGRAMS.ĮTELEGRAMS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S ACENOY.}

BIRTHDAY HONOURS,

LONDON, June 14th. The King's Birthday Honours List has been published.

PEERAGES. Peerages of the United Kingdom are conferred on

The Earl of Carrick,

Field Marshal Sir William Nicholson, Sir Francis Channing,

Sir Thomas Borthwick.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE LONDON STRIKE.

Losnoy, June 14th. The strike appears to be collapsing. The Shipping Federation declares that the strike in the Port of London is at an end.

The Strike Committee, however, un- nounces the withdrawal of permits and says that the engineers will be called out

to-morrow.

LATER.

The chief obstacle to the further re-

The following are made Privy Coun-sumption of work in Londen is the want eillors:-

Dominions beyond the seas or to other .countries. There are no official statistics available as to Japanese emigration, but placing it at the extreme figure of two millions the population of the United Kingdom would still show increase than that of Japan. As regards density of population there is a great similarity between the two countries, the United Kingdom having 363 persons per

A Chinese was fined $2 for obstruc Another defen square mile and Japan 330 persons, regarda cultivated area, however, there tion, in Contre Street. in a wide difference. The United Kingdant, for saving timber in D'Aguilar dam, with a total area of four-fifths of Street, was fined $10. Two other fines of

810 were inflicted for obstruction. its surface available for one purpose OF another, has a cultivated aros equal to two-fifths of the total extent. In Japan, according to a writer in the Oriental Review, only one-tenth of the area can be cultivated. It would probably be more correct to express this as the pro-

A. Chinese was charged with sell- portion that has been brought under

Defendant said cultivation, for the Hokkaido, with aing fish without a permit in Sai- fokig in population of only 31 persons to the Ying-Poon Market..

to the was talking 44 Jet beon little he touched, the fact being that places not the stall when a girl came up and adapted for the cultivation of rice are bought some fish, which he (defendant) A BLEND OF THE FINEST PURE apt to be considered as useless. The total gave to her. Sergeant Adlington inform area under rice is nearly double thated the Magistrate that complaints nort devoted to the cultivation of other been received from the stall-holders in cereals, and is equal to the total aron Sai-Ying-Poon and Sheck-tong-tui mar- ry bad to of land devoted to all other crops. Thus, kets that people of the type of defendant

I were spoiling their trade, as when it is stated that the Japanese)

fined 810 or 14 days. population has to he supported on the Pay nothing for licences. D..culant was A Chinese contractor was charged with Production of 12,700,000 acres, what is meant is that this in the area "bas maintained the re-cultivation, not that Japan's available blasting stone in Market Street, Kowloon, resources only extend to that amount, without having the charge sufficiently the FINEST The United Kingdom, it may be men-covered to prevent the fragments bring. putation of

tioned, has about eighteen million acres projected in such a manner as to damage | the of arable land, but at least as much the public latrine in Market Street. De- The dainage, SCOTCH WHISKY in

In Japan pasture fendant pleaded guilty. again in pasture land has been little developed. Japan's according to the Public Works Inspectors, One of the FAR EAST.

food problem, therefore, does not seem to amounted to about #100. have arisen from any abnormal growth Inspectors said he did not think the acci- in her population, but rather from a dent was due to careless blasting. disinclination on the part of the agricul- was quite within his rights in blasting turists and the people to take advantage there. Defendant, who had given a guar- of the resources of the country or antes to repair the latrine, was cautioned. to reform their methods of living in

Mr. Melbourne had before him three accordance with the changes of the Chinese charged with assaulting another tinies. The increase in the population is Chinese. Mr. Otto Kong Sing appeared not likely to continue at the ratio of for the defendants. The wife of the com- the past thirty years. Already there is plainant stated that the defendants left a noticeable decline in the number of a tin in a passage off Aberdeen Street. early marriages, no doubt occasioned by She stumbled over the tin, and subse the greater difficulty experienced in quently informed her husband that the defendants had kicked her. A struggle earning a livelihood, and in course of took place between the complainant and time it nuy be expected that the people the defendants, who were arrested by a the number of lukongs who appeared on the wil accommodate themselves

Defendants denied having as- One of them saulted the complainant. changing conditions consequent upon the transition from a purely agricultural to said he saw complainant and his wife The first an industrial state, One cause of the assaulting the first defendant.

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SUPHEME COURT.

Friday, 14th June,

IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.

BEFORE THE CHIEF JUSTICE (MR. RES DAVIES, K.C.).

THE INSURANCE CLAIM. The cuse

was resumed in which the Wa Leong Cheung Kee firm claimed from the Prussian National Insurance Co. of Stettin the sum of $22,500 alleged to be due on three policies of insurance. Mr. Eldon Potter (instructed by Mr. David- son, of Hastings & Hastings) appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr. H. E. Pollock, K., with him Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster (instructed by Mr. Shenton, of Deacon, looker & Deacon), appeared for the defendants.

of lighters, which cannot be moved as the striking lightarmen have a corporate The Port of London Au- monopoly. thority yesterday decided to vary the re- Secretary,gulations, enabling it to Ficence anying with the first items he asked the jury

PRIVY COUNCILLORS. Lord Richard Cavendish, Sir Henry Primrose, Mr. U. F. Masterman, Home

Mr. Brynmor Jones,

Sir James Dalziel,

Sir Albert Spicer.

The

BARON ETS. Vien Baronetcics are conferred. new baronets include:-

Mr. G. H. Claughton, Chairman of the London and North-Western Railway. Mr. H. L. Tangre, Deputy Chairman of Tangyes, Limited.

Sir Alexander Cross, senior partner in Alexander Cross & Sons, Glasgow.

eualified applicant

THE WAR BETWEEN TURKEY AND ITALY.

A SURPRISE ATTACK.

Mr. Pollock, in addressing the jury, wid that the burden lay on the plaintiffs of proving the correctness of the items which minste up their claim. After dial-

if the plaintiffs had satisted them that they had six boxes and two cases of silk on the first floor on the night of the five. The question was not whether there was a stock at the time of the insurance, but what were the goods at the time of the fire. He submitted that it could not be asserted that the show easy was full of goods in view of the evidence they had “ adduced. It was no good, he said, for a

LONDON, Jube 14th, A telegram from Rome states that the Turks and, Arabs yesterday surprised the Italians at Homs, whereupon all the

man to burn down his dwr house unless available Italians delivered a counter he were going to get the bare limit. attack on the flanks and rear of the How did the premises get ofre? Ho

Dr. R. J. Godler, Hon. Surgeon-in-enemy's forces, cutting the Turks inte submitted that no reasonable theory had two bodies, routing one, and surrounden put forward which would account He submitted to that Ordinary to the King.

Lieut.-Colonel Poe, C.B. who has beening and aunihilating the other. In the for the fire.

the plaintiffs had changed their evidence since they made the original statement railway questions in Ireland.

bodies were found, and there were many that a lighted lamp was left at the Prominently identified with land and oasis, where the fight took place, 421

Mr, W. P. Beale, M.P.`for South

other Turkish dead along the line of bottom of the stair. He submitted that Ayrshire.

defendants were entitled to their verdict.

Mr. Stuart Samuel, M.P. for White flight. The Italian Josses were two offi- chapel.

cers and 29 men killed, and two officers and 57 men wounded.

KNIGHTS.

There are twenty-five Knights, includ- in-

Mr. N. W. Helme, M.P. for Lancaster, Mr. J. M. McCallum, M.P. for Paisley. Mr. L. O. E. Dowdale, Head of the Administrative Department, Secretary's Office, Ireland.

Colonial.

HOME RULE BILL.

LONDON, June 14th. The House of Commons resumed con- sideration of the amendment proposed by Mr. Agar Roberts on Wednesday.

Sir Edward Carson said that even if the amendment was carried, Ulster would

Mr. W. Haldane, W.B., Crown Agont for Scotland and Prison Commissioner.

Mr. G. Hutchinson, Head of the pub-persist in their opposition to Home Rule. fishing loese of Hutchinson & Co.

Mr. A. P. Luglis, Consul-General at

Paris.

Professor B. G. A. Meymhan, Pro-

versity.

Mr. Redmond submitted that the amendment was purely a wrecking one.

Mr. Lloyd George said that if Ulster

difficulty that has arisen is that Japanese wife were bound over is $100 to be fessor of Clinical Surgery, Leeds Un-appealed for separate treatment, the throughout.

statesmen hardly seem to grasp the new developpents that have come over the country and have unconsciously tended by, their actions to make the transition state even mare onerous that it would naturally be. The import duty on rice, au ill-advised measure taken after the war, has yielded but a small return to the Treasury, while it has pressed hardest on the very people least able to hear the pressure-the poorer classes, whom neces sity, not choice, compels to cat imported rice. The duty has now been reduced,

good behaviour for six mouth. other defendants were discharged.

BOMBAY SILVER CORNER.

A Bombay telegram dated the stult, appearing in a Calcutta paper, says:~~ Great interest is felt in Bombay by the conclusion to which the silver group have They just brought their operations. have sold their enormous holding and the corner is at nu end.

Mr. Chunilal Surya, leader of the group, said in an interview with the Times of India representative last night that the Government of India was

Mr. A. J. Parish Naval Instructor. Lieut.-Colonel Prain, Director Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew,

Professor H. Brad, St. Andrew's Uni- versity.

Mr. Whitworth Wallis, F.S.A.

Mr. Frederick Grean, Director of the Oriont Navigation Company and Surz Caual.

HONOURS. FOR OFFICIALS IN

THE EAST.

Mr. E. D. H. Fraser, C.M.G., Conand-

receives ut Shangbai,

the

On Jun 12th, at 7.10 p.m., at the Civil although only temporarily, hut probably suspected of buying, but they could not General Hospital, OHN BYRON Scorr, of Hong- if this has the effect anticipated it will be sure of it. Mr. Chunilal said that K.C.M.G.

kong, age 80 years, HONGKONG OFFION: IDA, D23 Vœux ROAD C

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he finally abolished.

The German mail of the 15th

May

Mr. R. J. Wilkinson, Colonial Secre- tary, Straits Settlements, Mr. H. Bonar,

Mr. Putter told the jury that if the.. fraud was not proved to their satisfne- tion then the only question they had to ask themselves was how much the damages should be, and the minimum of damages for the plaintiffs was the minimum put upon the goods by Mr. | Lammert, defendants' own witness. He was going to say that in effect plaintiffs lad goods to the value that they said they had, 822,000. How much stock was on the plaintiffs' premises was the first If there question the jury had to decide. were fraud it did not matter whether plaintiffs had $50,000 or $100,000 worth of gonds on their premises. The onus of proof of fraud was on the defendants Counsel argued that the books of the firms with which they did business proved the accuracy of their books. Plaintifs had given the de- fendants every information, hud, so to speak, thrown their cards upon the table, and the result had been an attack on the frns mentioned.. Dealing with the LONDON, June 14th.

allegation that plaintiffs had committed Mr. Balfour has made his first publicarson, he pointed out that defendants must prove that charge as conclusively spesch since his retirement, at Preston where he addressed a gathering of five as if the plaintiffs stood in the dock. thousand people who were participating But defendants had made the charge and did not offer any evidence in support in a demonstration against granting of it. He ridiculed the suggestion put Home Rule to Ireland. Mr. Balfour forward by the other side, that the plain- tiffs, taking advantage of the fire on the said the last Home Rule Bill seemed to

Telemarhue, had lit their own fire. They be the worst of the three. It was a

could almuust imagine the man sitting en

Government would seriously consider it, but such a demand, bad not even been made during the debate.

The debate was adjourned, MB. BALFOUR ON HOME RULE.

LONDON OPTICE: 131, FLEET STREET. £0 was delivered in London on the 13th stock were disposed of gradually and Consul-General at Seoul, Mr. It. Gutte compilation of all the worst features of

The Daily Press

Hoxerono, Jose 15TH, 1912.

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about thirty people were concerned in the group. Their investments amounted to thres crores of rupes, two more crores being afterwards available. Two erores the remainder was sold 10 days ago, the profit on the whole transaction after former Consul-General at Hankow, Mr. We learn that a sailor of H. M. S. Clopaying interest being no less than 25 J. Carey Hall, Consul-General at Yoko The stock was bought has been killed at Canton, but no details lakhs.

average of 25d. and was sold for 27d., hama, Hon. E. Scott, First Secretary of are to hand.

the interest costing the speculators about the British Legation at Peking, Mr. F. a penny. The stock which has been dis

king, receive the C.M.G. E. Wilkinson, Consul-General at Nan

There was an increase of 8170,005 over

Tus increase in the pupulation of Japan since the opening of the country is a phenomena that has often been the

The steamer Kauros, which grounded subject of remark, and now that Japan is being troubled in regard to her food on Thursday morning on a sandy epit. supplies attention has agaiu beru drawn just off the feary wharf at Kowloon, got

an

100 stockholders. All loans in Bombay the estimate in the revenue from land posed of is now distributed among about on silver have been paid off, the effect

The Dato Mahomed B. Mahbob, of the sales in the Colony last year.

being that the Indian Specie Bank shares have risen from 52 to 58.

Another speculator, who gave details Johore Secretariat, is made an honorary of the operations, said that if the Govern C.B.

to the subject. Reliable statistics us to off about eight o'clock the same evening.ment of India had chosen to purchase

She is now alongside the wharf dis charging.

the stock of silver in the hands of silver

speculators in February, 1911, they would have got it very cheaply, as cheaply as

OTHER HONOURS.

the population of Japan Proper are not

The honorary Grund Cross of St. obtainable prior to 1882, when the figures

20d an ounce. It is at this price that Michael and St. George has been con- stood at $7,185,402. During the 30 years

A general meeting of the Hongkong the Government is suspected of buying ferred on Said Pasha, Premier of that have elapsed since then the popula-.

of Commerce is in the London Market, and before the tion has inercased by 14,403,759, the General Chamber

At first advertiser for Wednesday, July 3rd, to Government purchases are over prices Egypt.

are likely to go up to 32d. an ounce, for figures now being 51,501,342. sight this appears a very startling consider the expediency of forming an the whole world now is operating for increase, since it amounts to nearly half Association of Exporters and Dealers

under the auspices of the Chamber.. a million a year, but when we come to compare it with countries similarly situated it would appear that there is nothing abnormal in such an increase in the case of a progressive country. Thus, taking the case of the United Kingdoni, we find that in 1892 there was a popula tion of 36,241,482, roughly Bott, two million less than Japan.

The present

From the Report on the Finances of the Colony for 1911, laid on the table of the Legislative Council on Thursday, we learn that the total revenue last year was $7,407,991, which is 8410,848 in ex- cess of the estimate and $338,362 in excess of the revenue for 1910.

ten years

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every free constitution in the world and the rod with a box of matches and a bandle of shavings. watching the har defind all the teachings of history. Moon-bour and, when be say the fire on the struck legislators were rubbing even ship, descending into the shop and lights ing the fire. They might as well produce federalism of its blessings.

the nail which fore the trousers of the Councel man coming down the spout. dealt with the allegations of fraud, and said these must be proved as if the plain- tifix were placed in the dock.

Counsel had not concluded when the Court rose.

THE ANGIO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE.

STATEMENT BY VISCOUNT KATSURA.

LONDON, June 14th.

On the eve of starting on a European tour Viscount Katsura, the ex-Premier of Japan, was interviewed do Tokyo by a representative of Renter's Agency. He denied that the Anglo-Japaatse Alliance

had weakened. It was of more import-

THE NEW ZEALAND LOAN."

LONDON, June 14th. It is stated that the underwriters are saddled with 85 per cent of the New Zea

land loan.

THE TURF.

IN SUMMARY JERISDICTION. BEFORE MR. H. H. J. GOMPERTZ (PUIS JUDGE)..

judgment for the plaintiff on the techini- cal assault, said the facts in the case were very simple. It was admitted that the inan had no right to arrest, no right to lay hands upon any person; if he did, it

e-had-awarded the plaintiff 85-damages. was a breach of the local-Ordinner

for technical assault, the question of costs being left over. Of course, one had not uch sympathy with the individual in a ease like that, the man having been line? $250 for having lottery tickets in his possession, but the common law principle had been claimed that the roan was en- The titled to the liberty of his person. man was entitled to his costs, and be gave him costs on the lowest scale.

WITHDRAWN

TESTINO A REVÈNUE OFFICER'S POWERS His Lordship, referring to the action Mr. C. E. Mallet, Financial Secretaryance to-day, he said, than it ever was. It by Yip Man against Chan Hing, a re- the rise, us may be seen from the London to the War Ofice, and Mr. Walter was the pivot of Japan's foreign policy venue officer, for damages for illegal ar- bullion brokers? certificate. America is taking advantage of the market and is Langley, assistant Under-Secretary of and the best guarantee of the peace of rest, in which he had previously given

Europe. selling very sparingly its own produc- State in the Foreign Office, are made tion. China has to buy silver very largely for large loans she is going to Commanders of the Order of St. Michael contract in the near future, and it is.

and St. George." really now a competition between the Chinese Government and the Government The Cross of the Order of the of India in the purchase of silver. It seems at present that the Government will Buth has been conferred on General

six millions of silver Barker, of the Seaforth E

Highlanders, require about The Rev. H. O. Spink, who is retiring annually for the next pupulation of the United Kingdom, from the charge of St. Andrew's Church, replenish the silver currency, and China and Generai Tucker, of the Staffordshire

to tlin according

latest census is Kowloon, leaver with Miss 8pink for will require about 10 crores of silver Regiment..

Mr. R. A. Redmayne, H. M. Inspector 43,008,42%. This gives an increase of ten Home by the Korea next week. Their annually to meet the vast development millions in round figures, compared with departure is much regretted in Kowloon of trade and fresh capital that is to be

Mr. Spink's successor will be the Rev. poured into the country for various of Mines, and Mr. E. Gusse, librarian Japan's fourteen millions. Before wa N. C. Pope, M. A., of St. Matthew's, reforms.

Calcutta operators are largely interest to the House of Lords, are made Comed as follows:--- Preferment can-arrive at a true catimate, however, St. Leonard's-on-Sea.

ed in the rise of silver now compared

Chili II. another factor has to be taken into con-

With reference to the paragraph which with the Bombey market. Although the panions of the Order of the Bath.

Mr. McBride, Premier of British

Moscato sideration, and that is, the amount of appeared a day or two ago stating that Government of India are suspected of emigration from both countries. In the fr. Christopher Wilson, solicitor, had being buyers on the London market, there case of the United Kingdom this is very been admitted to practice in H.B.M.'s is no reliable confirmation of the rumour Columbia, and Mr. Roblin, Premier of Roughly it may be said that Supreme Court, Shanghai, we are in- and the delay in confirmation and re- Manitoba, have been made Commanders heavy.

formed that Mr. Wilson, who is with Mr. ported increase of Rs. 22 lakhs in the

rupec portion of the Paper Currehey of the Order of St. Michael and St. during the 30 years from 1882 to 1912 M. J. D. Stephens, will continue to re-

George. some 6,700,000 persons have emigrated side and practise in Hongkong as here- Reserve had a depressing effect upon the

silver market. from the United Kingdom to the British tofore.

RESULT OF NEWBURY DEP.

LONDON, June 14 The race for the Newbury Cup reult

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The betting was:-7 to 9 against Pre ferment, 5 to 1 against Chili II., and 100 to 10 against Moscato.

Eight ran. Won by two lengths, a neck between second and third.

In the case of Wong Ah Kwai C.. H.

peared for plaintiff, said his instructions were to withdraw the case, as matters bad been arranged with the défendant.

Parkinson for 8830, Mr. Harris, who ap